Judith A Feeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 648945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith A Feeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith A |
| FAMILY NAME | Feeney |
| SIGNATURE | FEENEY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 398 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Carer burden: Associations with attachment, self-efficacy, and care-seeking
Familial caregiving research is yet to examine the factors that underpin the association between attachment insecurity and carer burden. Furthermore, previous research consists largely of data collected at a single point in time. This paper addresses these gaps by reporting on a study involving 57 parent-child dyads to determine whether adult children's caregiving self-efficacy mediates the association between carer attachment insecurity and care…
The structure of pathological narcissism and its relationships with adult attachment styles: A study of Italian nonclinical and clinical adult participants
The aim of this study was to evaluate the structure of pathological narcissism and its relationships with adult attachment styles in 394 Italian nonclinical volunteers and in 103 consecutively admitted Italian outpatients. All participants were administered the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) and the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ). Confirmatory factor analyses replicated the 2-factor model of the PNI found in English-speaking sample…
Thinking about feelings: Affective state mentalization, attachment styles, and borderline personality disorder features among Italian nonclinical adolescents
In order to Test Fonagy's (Fonagy & Bateman, 2008) hypotheses on the relationships among borderline personality disorder (BPD), mentalization, and attachment, nonclinical adolescents were assigned to a high-BPD group (n = 29), an average- BPD group (n = 31) and a low-BPD group (n = 29). Participants in the three groups were administered the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RET), the Lack of Emotional Clarity Scale from the Difficulties in Emoti…
Towards an integrative attachment-based model of relationship functioning
Based on attachment theory, this study developed a theory-based model of heterosexual relationship functioning that examined both proximal and distal factors and both actor and partner effects. A particular focus was on the underexplored issue of double-mediated effects between attachment orientation and relationship satisfaction. Data were collected from a community sample of 95 cohabiting and married couples with a mean age of 39.30 years. Part…
Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan
Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the role of personal relationships in people's lives. Highlighting areas of special significance and research interest at each major life-stage, Patricia Noller, Judith A. Feeney and Candida Peterson, examine how close relationships develop over time and influence individual adjustment. They explore a wide rangeof relationships, including some that are o…
Approaches to assessment and intervention across four types of child and family welfare services
Challenges in implementing participatory practice in child protection: A contingency approach
Is less more? Confirmatory factor analysis of the Attachment Style Questionnaires
Few psychometric studies have confirmed the factor structure of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) (Feeney, Noller, & Hanrahan, 1994), a widely used self-report attachment measure. Moreover, no study has formally investigated the factor structure of the ASQ's short form (ASQ-SF) proposed by Alexander, Feeney, Hohaus, and Noller (2001). The aim of the present study was to validate the factor structures of the ASQ and ASQ-SF, and to identify …
Understanding Marriage: Developments in the Study of Couple Interaction
Are stepsiblings bad, stepmothers wicked, and stepfathers evil? An assessment of Australian stepfamily stereotypes
Prior research has suggested that stepfamilies are perceived (or stereotyped) negatively in relation to intact families. The present studies examined contemporary stereotypes of Australian stepfamilies, using participants from stepfamilies and from biological (intact) families. Participants completed a comprehensive set of measures assessing key aspects of family interaction and family functioning (including lay concepts of stepfamilies and biolo…
Attachment patterns of young adults in stepfamilies and biological families
This research addressed the under-studied question of attachment patterns in stepfamilies. In total, 368 young adults participated in three studies assessing key aspects of attachment in stepfamilies and biological families (categorical attachment, working models, attachment dimensions and attachment figures). Stepfamily participants were less likely than biological family participants to endorse a categorical measure of secure attachment and had…
Reunions of Adoptees Who Have Met Both Birth Parents: Post-Reunion Relationships and Factors that Facilitate and Hinder the Reunion Process
Eighteen adoptees who had met both their birth mothers and birth fathers were surveyed in order to determine the types of post-reunion relationships they developed with each birth parent and the factors that facilitated or hindered their reunions. While adoptees were more likely to develop a personal rather than nonpersonal relationship with birth mothers, relationships with birth fathers were more evenly divided between personal and nonpersonal …
Conflict in Divorcing and Continuously Married Families: A Study of Marital, Parent–Child and Sibling Relationships
Family members in both separated or divorcing and married families completed a range of questionnaires about the conflict in 3 relationships-couple, parent-child, and sibling-across 2 phases of the study approximately 12 months apart. In addition, the adolescents completed measures of adjustment: self esteem, depression, and anxiety. Adolescents in a subset of the divorcing families were interviewed about the conflict in their families across the…
Collaboration between mental health and child protection services: Professionals' perceptions of best practice
Adoption, attachment, and relationship concerns: A study of adult adoptees
We examined the impact of adoptive status and family experiences on adult attachment security and how attachment predicts relationship outcomes. Adults adopted as infants ( N = 144) and a sample of nonadoptees ( N = 131) completed measures of attachment security at recruitment and 6 months later; other measures assessed parental bonding and adoptees’ reunion experiences (Time 1), and relationship variables (e.g., loneliness, relationship quality;…
Parental attachment and conflict behavior: Implications for offspring's attachment, loneliness, and relationship satisfaction
This study assessed the implications of parental attachment security and parental conflict behavior for offspring's relational adjustment (attachment security, loneliness, and relationship satisfaction). Further, reports of parental conflict behavior were obtained from both parents and offspring, addressing questions regarding agreement between reporters and the origin and extent of discrepant perceptions. Results revealed consistent patterns of …
Depression, Emotional Arousability, and Perceptions of Parenting in Adult Adoptees and Non-Adoptees
Adult adoptees (n = 144) and non-adoptees (n = 131) were surveyed in order to investigate (1) the relative contributions of adoptive status and parental variables to measures of adjustment, and (2) possible differences between searching and non-searching adoptees. Parental variables were more important than adoptive status in predicting depression, though adoptive status and perceptions of parenting were both significant predictors of emotional a…
Victim-perpetrator differences in reports of hurtful events
This research project addressed limitations identified in previous studies of role differences (victim vs. perpetrator) in evaluations of hurtful events. The study employed multiple methods (open-ended and structured retrospective reports and experience-sampling diary records), and involved a community sample of both dating and married couples. Retrospective reports indicated that the extent and direction of role-related differences varied marked…
Interagency collaboration between child protection and mental health services: Practices, attitudes and barriers
Hurt feelings in couple relationships: Exploring the role of attachment and perceptions of personal injury
This research program focused on perceptions of the appraisals and emotions involved in hurtful events in couple relationships. Study 1 tested the broad proposition that hurt feelings are elicited by relational transgressions that generally imply relational devaluation and that evoke a sense of personal injury by threatening positive mental models of self and/or others. Participants (N= 224) provided retrospective accounts of an experience of bei…
Practice challenges at the intersection of child protection and mental health
This paper examines the complexity of collaboration between child protection and mental health services, where a parent has a mental illness and there are protection concerns for children. The paper reports on data from focused in‐depth interviews with 36 child protection workers, adult mental health workers and child and youth mental health workers. Data were analysed thematically, using NVivo to facilitate data management and analysis. Two dime…
Children's Perceptions of Their Sibling Relationships During Parental Separation and Divorce
The central aim of this paper is to explore whether parental separation and divorce influence children's experiences of the sibling relationship. In addressing this research aim, the paper draws on the first wave data from a longitudinal study of sibling relationships and adolescent adjustment to parental divorce. Participants include the adolescent children and their parents from 137 divorcing families, and from a comparison sample of 165 intact…
The composition of attachment networks throughout the adult years
This study assessed the structure of adults' attachment networks, using a questionnaire measure of preferred attachment figures with a large sample of adults ( N = 812) representing various ages and life situations. Two broad research questions were addressed. The first question concerned the variety of attachment figures reported by adults and the relative strength of attachment to each, including preferred (primary) attachment figures. The seco…
Transfer of Attachment from Parents to Romantic Partners: Effects of Individual and Relationship Variables
Attachment theory emphasises the importance of close relationships across the lifespan. Research has documented the gradual transfer of attachment from parents to romantic partners, and the effects of relationship length and secure attachment. The present study was designed to confirm the effects of romantic involvement (dating, cohabiting, married) on attachment transfer, and to explore the role of individual and relationship variables in the tr…
Complexity, conflict and uncertainty: Issues in collaboration between child protection and mental health services
Attachment style as a predictor of adult romantic relationships
Questionnaire measures of attachment style, attachment history, beliefs about relationships, self-esteem, limerence, loving, love addiction, and love styles were administered to 374 undergraduates. Attachment style was related in theoretically expected ways to attachment history and to beliefs about relationships. Securely attached Ss reported relatively positive perceptions of their early family relationships. Avoidant Ss were most likely to rep…
Attachment Style and Verbal Descriptions of Romantic Partners
The present study investigated attachment style differences in subjects' reports of their romantic partners. The sample consisted of seventy-four undergraduates (thirty-seven males and thirty-seven females) who had been in a dating relationship for at least 1 month. Subjects supplied a verbal description of their current dating partner and later completed the single-item measure of attachment style developed by Hazan & Shaver (1987). The verbal r…
A Longitudinal Study of Conflict in Early Marriage
Thirty-three couples were assessed in terms of their communication and relationship satisfaction, just before marriage and twice during the first 2 years, using questionnaire and interaction-based methods. There were few changes over time, except that couples lower in relationship satisfaction temporarily decreased their use of negative strategies and increased their use of positive strategies after 1 year. Spouses high in satisfaction after 2 ye…
Hurt Feelings in Couple Relationships: Towards Integrative Models of the Negative Effects of Hurtful Events
Previous research suggests that hurt feelings can have powerful effects on individual and relational outcomes. This study examined a typology of hurtful events in couple relationships, together with integrative models predicting ongoing effects on victims and relationships. Participants were 224 students from introductory and third-year psychology classes, who completed open-ended and structured measures concerning an event in which a partner had…
Issues of Closeness and Distance in Dating Relationships: Effects of Sex and Attachment Style
This study was designed to clarify the nature of partners' needs for closeness and distance in established dating relationships, by integrating theories of attachment, gender role socialization, and dialectical contradictions. Seventy-two couples who had been dating their partners for at least one year provided unstructured accounts of their relationships, and completed measures of attachment style and relationship satisfaction. Both qualitative …
Challenges in implementing participatory practice in child protection: A contingency approach
On the Dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian Clinical and Nonclinical Participants
This study examined the utility of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) in an Italian sample of 487 consecutively admitted psychiatric participants and an independent sample of 605 nonclinical participants. Minimum average partial analysis of data from the psychiatric sample supported the hypothesized five-factor structure of the items; furthermore, multiple-group component analysis showed that this fivefactor structure was not an artifact of…
Collaboration between mental health and child protection services: Professionals' perceptions of best practice
Complexity, conflict and uncertainty: Issues in collaboration between child protection and mental health services
Towards an integrative attachment-based model of relationship functioning
Based on attachment theory, this study developed a theory-based model of heterosexual relationship functioning that examined both proximal and distal factors and both actor and partner effects. A particular focus was on the underexplored issue of double-mediated effects between attachment orientation and relationship satisfaction. Data were collected from a community sample of 95 cohabiting and married couples with a mean age of 39.30 years. Part…
Is less more? Confirmatory factor analysis of the Attachment Style Questionnaires
Few psychometric studies have confirmed the factor structure of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) (Feeney, Noller, & Hanrahan, 1994), a widely used self-report attachment measure. Moreover, no study has formally investigated the factor structure of the ASQ's short form (ASQ-SF) proposed by Alexander, Feeney, Hohaus, and Noller (2001). The aim of the present study was to validate the factor structures of the ASQ and ASQ-SF, and to identify …
Reunions of Adoptees Who Have Met Both Birth Parents: Post-Reunion Relationships and Factors that Facilitate and Hinder the Reunion Process
Eighteen adoptees who had met both their birth mothers and birth fathers were surveyed in order to determine the types of post-reunion relationships they developed with each birth parent and the factors that facilitated or hindered their reunions. While adoptees were more likely to develop a personal rather than nonpersonal relationship with birth mothers, relationships with birth fathers were more evenly divided between personal and nonpersonal …
Victim-perpetrator differences in reports of hurtful events
This research project addressed limitations identified in previous studies of role differences (victim vs. perpetrator) in evaluations of hurtful events. The study employed multiple methods (open-ended and structured retrospective reports and experience-sampling diary records), and involved a community sample of both dating and married couples. Retrospective reports indicated that the extent and direction of role-related differences varied marked…
Transfer of Attachment from Parents to Romantic Partners: Effects of Individual and Relationship Variables
Attachment theory emphasises the importance of close relationships across the lifespan. Research has documented the gradual transfer of attachment from parents to romantic partners, and the effects of relationship length and secure attachment. The present study was designed to confirm the effects of romantic involvement (dating, cohabiting, married) on attachment transfer, and to explore the role of individual and relationship variables in the tr…
Are stepsiblings bad, stepmothers wicked, and stepfathers evil? An assessment of Australian stepfamily stereotypes
Prior research has suggested that stepfamilies are perceived (or stereotyped) negatively in relation to intact families. The present studies examined contemporary stereotypes of Australian stepfamilies, using participants from stepfamilies and from biological (intact) families. Participants completed a comprehensive set of measures assessing key aspects of family interaction and family functioning (including lay concepts of stepfamilies and biolo…
Approaches to assessment and intervention across four types of child and family welfare services
Early Parenting and Parental Attachment: Links with Offspring’s Attachment and Perceptions of Social Support
In a multiple-reporter study of parenting and adult attachment, measures of attachment security were obtained from 101 adults, and from a subsample of their mothers (n=72) and fathers (n=62). In addition, both parents and offspring reported on behaviours that had occurred in the parent-child relationship, and offspring completed a measure of perceived social support from family and friends. Parents’ and offspring’s reports of parenting behaviours…
Practice challenges at the intersection of child protection and mental health
This paper examines the complexity of collaboration between child protection and mental health services, where a parent has a mental illness and there are protection concerns for children. The paper reports on data from focused in‐depth interviews with 36 child protection workers, adult mental health workers and child and youth mental health workers. Data were analysed thematically, using NVivo to facilitate data management and analysis. Two dime…
Attachment patterns of young adults in stepfamilies and biological families
This research addressed the under-studied question of attachment patterns in stepfamilies. In total, 368 young adults participated in three studies assessing key aspects of attachment in stepfamilies and biological families (categorical attachment, working models, attachment dimensions and attachment figures). Stepfamily participants were less likely than biological family participants to endorse a categorical measure of secure attachment and had…
Romantic Bonds in Young Adulthood: Links With Family Experiences
Links between young adults' romantic relationships and experiences in the family of origin were assessed in two qualitative studies. Study 1 employed a sample of individuals in relatively new dating relationships, whereas participants in Study 2 were in longer–term relationships. In both studies, participants were given an unstructured task which required them to talk about their current dating relationship. The majority of participants in both s…
Determinants of Marital Quality: A Partial Test of Lewis and Spanier’s Model
In this paper, two studies of the structure of marital quality are reported. The studies were based on Lewis and Spanier’s (1979) theorizing about marital quality, and in particular, about “rewards from spousal interaction”. In the first study, Lewis and Spanier’s 38 propositions about the links between spousal interaction and marital satisfaction were operationalised as two sets of 38 items: one assessing behaviours in the current relationship a…
Carer burden: Associations with attachment, self-efficacy, and care-seeking
Familial caregiving research is yet to examine the factors that underpin the association between attachment insecurity and carer burden. Furthermore, previous research consists largely of data collected at a single point in time. This paper addresses these gaps by reporting on a study involving 57 parent-child dyads to determine whether adult children's caregiving self-efficacy mediates the association between carer attachment insecurity and care…
Depression, Emotional Arousability, and Perceptions of Parenting in Adult Adoptees and Non-Adoptees
Adult adoptees (n = 144) and non-adoptees (n = 131) were surveyed in order to investigate (1) the relative contributions of adoptive status and parental variables to measures of adjustment, and (2) possible differences between searching and non-searching adoptees. Parental variables were more important than adoptive status in predicting depression, though adoptive status and perceptions of parenting were both significant predictors of emotional a…
Attachment style as a predictor of adult romantic relationships
Questionnaire measures of attachment style, attachment history, beliefs about relationships, self-esteem, limerence, loving, love addiction, and love styles were administered to 374 undergraduates. Attachment style was related in theoretically expected ways to attachment history and to beliefs about relationships. Securely attached Ss reported relatively positive perceptions of their early family relationships. Avoidant Ss were most likely to rep…
Attachment Style and Verbal Descriptions of Romantic Partners
The present study investigated attachment style differences in subjects' reports of their romantic partners. The sample consisted of seventy-four undergraduates (thirty-seven males and thirty-seven females) who had been in a dating relationship for at least 1 month. Subjects supplied a verbal description of their current dating partner and later completed the single-item measure of attachment style developed by Hazan & Shaver (1987). The verbal r…
Attachment style, communication patterns, and satisfaction across the life cycle of marriage
Questionnaire measures of attachment, communication patterns, and relationship satisfaction were administered to 361 married couples, sampled across the life cycle of marriage. Individuals who were secure in attachment (defined in terms of comfort with closeness and low anxiety over relationships) tended to be paired with secure spouses. Security of attachment was associated with one's own relationship satisfaction, although husbands' satisfactio…
Equity and marital satisfaction over the family life cycle
Marital satisfaction and perceptions of global marital equity were assessed in a sample of 373 Australian husbands and wives drawn from four phases of the family life cycle: preparenthood, childrearing, launching, and the empty nest. For wives only, satisfaction levels across successive phases described the U‐shaped curve predicted from previous research. Sex differences emerged in perceptions of marital equity: During childrearing and the empty …
A Longitudinal Study of Conflict in Early Marriage
Thirty-three couples were assessed in terms of their communication and relationship satisfaction, just before marriage and twice during the first 2 years, using questionnaire and interaction-based methods. There were few changes over time, except that couples lower in relationship satisfaction temporarily decreased their use of negative strategies and increased their use of positive strategies after 1 year. Spouses high in satisfaction after 2 ye…
Adult attachment and emotional control
The connection between attachment style and affect regulation, proposed by attachment theorists, was explored in the context of long‐term dating relationships. Seventy‐two couples completed questionnaire measures of attachment (using a four‐group forced‐choice item, together with scales tapping Comfort with closeness, and Anxiety over relationships) and emotional control (in which subjects rated own and partner's control of anger, sadness, and an…
Adult Attachment
Attachment, caregiving, and marital satisfaction
This research tested the proposition that attachment and caregiving are central, interrelated components of adult love relationships. A sample of 229 married couples was used to assess the association between attachment and caregiving styles and the implications of these variables for marital satisfaction. There was evidence of partner matching in terms of dimensions of attachment (Comfort with closeness, Anxiety over relationships) and caregivin…
Determinants of Marital Quality: A Partial Test of Lewis and Spanier’s Model
In this paper, two studies of the structure of marital quality are reported. The studies were based on Lewis and Spanier’s (1979) theorizing about marital quality, and in particular, about “rewards from spousal interaction”. In the first study, Lewis and Spanier’s 38 propositions about the links between spousal interaction and marital satisfaction were operationalised as two sets of 38 items: one assessing behaviours in the current relationship a…
Adult Attachment
Adult attachment, emotional control, and marital satisfaction
This study extends previous research into the relations among attachment style, emotional experience, and emotional control. Questionnaire measures of these variables were completed by a broad sample of 238 married couples. Continuous measures of attachment showed that insecure attachment (low Comfort with closeness; high Anxiety over relationships) was related to greater control of emotion, regardless of whether the emotion was partner‐related o…
Romantic Bonds in Young Adulthood: Links With Family Experiences
Links between young adults' romantic relationships and experiences in the family of origin were assessed in two qualitative studies. Study 1 employed a sample of individuals in relatively new dating relationships, whereas participants in Study 2 were in longer–term relationships. In both studies, participants were given an unstructured task which required them to talk about their current dating relationship. The majority of participants in both s…
Issues of Closeness and Distance in Dating Relationships: Effects of Sex and Attachment Style
This study was designed to clarify the nature of partners' needs for closeness and distance in established dating relationships, by integrating theories of attachment, gender role socialization, and dialectical contradictions. Seventy-two couples who had been dating their partners for at least one year provided unstructured accounts of their relationships, and completed measures of attachment style and relationship satisfaction. Both qualitative …
Marital conflict patterns: Links with family conflict and family members’perceptions of one another
The goal of this study was to explore the effects of marital conflict on conflict patterns in the family, and on family members’perceptions of one another. Sixty‐eight two‐parent families with adolescent twins participated, with parents reporting on the conflict patterns used by the marital dyad, and by themselves in interaction with each of their twins, and adolescent twins reporting on their interactions with each other. In addition, all four f…
Attachment style and coping resources as predictors of coping strategies in the transition to parenthood
The relations among adult attachment style, coping resources, appraised strain, and coping strategies were examined in a prospective study of married couples having their first child ( N = 92). Attachment and coping resources were measured during the second trimester of pregnancy, and parenting strain and coping strategies were assessed when the babies were about 6 weeks old. Results supported a theoretical model proposing that attachment is pred…
Attachment and spousal caregiving
A community sample of 362 married couples participated in a study of attachment and spousal caregiving, which combined qualitative and quantitative components. The qualitative component focused on actual experiences of caregiving, assessed by participants' semi‐structured accounts of a situation involving their role as caregiver for their spouse. Attachment styles and their underlying dimensions (comfort with closeness, anxiety over relationships…
Links between attachment orientations and dispositional and diary–based measures of disclosure in dating couples: A study of actor and partner effects
Issues concerning the influence of attachment characteristics on own and partner’s disclosure were addressed using a sample of 113 couples in medium–term dating relationships. Individual differences in attachment were assessed in terms of relationship anxiety and avoidance. Disposition to disclose was assessed using questionnaire measures of self–disclosure, relationship–focused disclosure, and the ability to elicit disclosure from the partner; i…
Attachment, marital interaction, and relationship satisfaction: A diary study
The relations among measures of attachment, spouse behavior, and marital satisfaction were assessed in a broad sample of 193 married couples, using both questionnaire and diary methods. Insecure attachment was associated with less favorable reports of spouse behavior, as assessed by diary checklists. Marital satisfaction was predicted by attachment measures and reports of spouse behavior. The relation between attachment security and marital satis…
Early Parenting and Parental Attachment: Links with Offspring’s Attachment and Perceptions of Social Support
In a multiple-reporter study of parenting and adult attachment, measures of attachment security were obtained from 101 adults, and from a subsample of their mothers (n=72) and fathers (n=62). In addition, both parents and offspring reported on behaviours that had occurred in the parent-child relationship, and offspring completed a measure of perceived social support from family and friends. Parents’ and offspring’s reports of parenting behaviours…
Attachment insecurity, depression, and the transition to parenthood
In a longitudinal study of adult attachment and depression during the transition to parenthood, 76 couples completed questionnaires on three occasions: during the second trimester of pregnancy, and six weeks and six months postbirth. On the first and second occasions, the couples were also interviewed about their experiences of pregnancy and parenthood, respectively. Measures were also completed at similar time intervals by a comparison group of …
On the dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian clinical and non clinical participants
On the Dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian Clinical and Nonclinical Participants
This study examined the utility of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) in an Italian sample of 487 consecutively admitted psychiatric participants and an independent sample of 605 nonclinical participants. Minimum average partial analysis of data from the psychiatric sample supported the hypothesized five-factor structure of the items; furthermore, multiple-group component analysis showed that this fivefactor structure was not an artifact of…
Children's Perceptions of Their Sibling Relationships During Parental Separation and Divorce
The central aim of this paper is to explore whether parental separation and divorce influence children's experiences of the sibling relationship. In addressing this research aim, the paper draws on the first wave data from a longitudinal study of sibling relationships and adolescent adjustment to parental divorce. Participants include the adolescent children and their parents from 137 divorcing families, and from a comparison sample of 165 intact…
The composition of attachment networks throughout the adult years
This study assessed the structure of adults' attachment networks, using a questionnaire measure of preferred attachment figures with a large sample of adults ( N = 812) representing various ages and life situations. Two broad research questions were addressed. The first question concerned the variety of attachment figures reported by adults and the relative strength of attachment to each, including preferred (primary) attachment figures. The seco…
Transfer of Attachment from Parents to Romantic Partners: Effects of Individual and Relationship Variables
Attachment theory emphasises the importance of close relationships across the lifespan. Research has documented the gradual transfer of attachment from parents to romantic partners, and the effects of relationship length and secure attachment. The present study was designed to confirm the effects of romantic involvement (dating, cohabiting, married) on attachment transfer, and to explore the role of individual and relationship variables in the tr…
Psychology (48 works) · Developmental psychology (37 works) · Social Psychology (34 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (32 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (31 works) · Attachment theory (25 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Perception (11 works)